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Rh did not know what he intended, nor what he did not intend. He levied troops by act of Parliament, and the next moment cahier'd them. He threatned, he begg'd pardon; he et a price upon Cardinal Mazarine's head, and afterwards congratulated him in a public manner. Our civil wars under Charles the ixth were bloody and cruel, thoe of the League execrable, and that of the Frondeurs ridiculous.

for which the French chiefly reproach the Englih Nation, is, the murther of King Charles the Firt, whom his ubjects treated exactly as he wou'd have treated them, had his Reign been properous. After all, conider on one ide, Charles the firt defeated in a pitch'd battle, imprion'd, try'd, entenc'd to die in Wetminter-hall, and then beheaded: And on the other, the Emperor Henry the eventh, poion'd by his